WHITTLING DOWN | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 9, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 23.

WHITTLING DOWN.

MR. SPURGEON had an infinite disgust for the modern tendency to whittle down gospel truths to the little end of nothing. He said:—

"When a man gets to cutting down sin, paring down depravity, and making little of future punishment, let him no longer preach to you. Some modern divines whittle away the gospel to the small end of nothing. They make our divine Lord to be a sort of blessed nobody; they bring down salvation to mere salvability, make certainties into probabilities, and treat verities as mere opinions. When you see a preacher making the gospel small by degrees and miserably less till there is not enough of it left to make soup for a sick grasshopper, get you gone. . . . As for me, I believe in the colossal—a need deep as hell and grace as high as heaven. I believe in a pit that is bottomless, and a heaven that is topless. I believe in an infinite God and an infinite atonement, infinite love and mercy, an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure, of which the substance and the reality are an infinite Christ."—Selected.